Bespoke clergywear is far from heavenly

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There must a way for ministers of religion to present themselves to a cynical public without spending more on dressing up

Sir, The very idea of “bespoke clergywear” (report,
Jan 24) would astonish and probably outrage Richard Baxter, the great
Puritan leader of nonconformist Christianity in the 17th century.

What he would make of startling clerical designer garb recently paraded on a
Bristol catwalk is not hard to imagine. There is a competition going on
throughout Christendom for preachers and teachers of the Church to appear in
technicolour. We have become used to it with clergy in the Eastern Orthodox,
Anglican, even the Roman Catholic churches. But the infestation has now
reached Methodism, the United Reformed Church, the Church of Scotland,